How has populism transformed party systems in Europe? I survey the varieties of populism,
the sources of their support and the different ways that they appeal to voters. I use data from …

Ethnopopulism is an elite strategy for winning votes and concentrating power–a common
playbook for the erosion of liberal democracy that is empowered and justified by a …

While the European Union (EU) professes a commitment to liberal democracy, in recent
years it has allowed some member governments to backslide toward competitive …

In recent years, Central and Eastern Europe have furnished several examples of illiberalism
in power. The most prominent and consequential cases are Fidesz, which has ruled in …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

From the co-authors of the classic Civil Society and Political Theory, Populism and Civil
Society offers an empirically informed, systematic theoretical analysis of the political …

Democratic regression has become a worrying phenomenon in the last years. Social
science has provided a variety of explanations why democratic regimes have lost …

Abstract On 22 October 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland ruled that an abortion
due to foetal impairment was unconstitutional. This article discusses the context of this …

Populism is Janus-faced. There is not a single form of populism but rather a variety of
different forms, each with profoundly different political consequences. Despite the current …

Combining the insights of EU-specific research on backsliding and coalitions with the
literature on the international collaboration of autocrats, we argue that right-wing political …